Actually, I watch the content in a timely manner to experience it without having it spoiled by everyone else that watched it over the course of the prior year.
And yes, that happens quite often in my life, unfortunately. Sad part is that it's usually not the same people who do it, which makes it difficult to avoid.
Remember the twist in The Sixth Sense that you didn't see coming? I don't. Someone saw me with the disc in hand and spoiled it before I even put it in my DVD player.
Spoilers aren't bad if you're at the front of the release curve.
Just give us a web browser on our 360s, MS. I'll shag clicker.com something fierce and you'll make your money off the hardware and Live subscription fee. Could it be any easer?
Nah, it'll be confirmation that Keanu Reeves is going to destroy the word at the end of 2012. So, let's get off this rock. Now does anyone remember where we parked the spaceship?
No doubt. I don't want want to live forever, just long enough to piss my great great grandchildren off when they have to change the age field in their databases from a tinyint() or byte to something more worthy.
Write your own game. Since you're bored with the current crop, you are less likely to reproduce them and might just come up with the next Angry Birds or Meat Boy concept.
I felt the same way you did not that long ago and now I've got a functioning prototype using the Unreal Development Kit. If you can image it, you can do it. Git 'r' dun!
So if the $60 I spent for the 360 version lets me use and transfer the license for the content that's provided by the game developer and the distributor (i.e., I can sell the CD on the used market), shouldn't the DLC license also be transferable as I already posses the physical media with said content?
Honestly, I don't mind paying for the DLCs. I just wish they had been up front about how they were being distributed -- they've lost some of my trust simply because they didn't disclose the method they were planning to use.
The other great thing is that you make a disk image of your VPS and store it remotely as a backup. Then if you decide to move, you just find another company running the same VM software and restore the entire image. BAM! It doesn't get any easier.
I've been doing this for years and it works great. Plus you can always start up the VM software at home (since most places use free software anyway) and do remote development with your *compete* live environment. It's great.
Almost 60 VPSes currently running under my name and wouldn't recommend anything less to anyone as tech savvy as the Slashdot crowd!
I should have clarified. My sites are all now built for HTML5 and every attempt is made to stay standards-compliant.
While users with older browsers are redirected, the entire site (short of the few pages with directions) use those standards and are still visible selects the ``I know my browser was made in the 1800s but I still want to see your site'' link.
It's code and pages that I wrote one and just copy into new sites. *That's* what I wish more people would do. We could all gently urge those who either don't know or don't care and perhaps make the web a better place, one user at a time.
All of my sites now use browser detection for Firefox 2.* and IE versions prior to 8 and sends the user to a page giving them download options. It'd be nice if more people did the same.
Not everyone. Tons of sites list both critic and player reviews and there's often a fairly large difference between both which tells a rather fascinating story. At the same time, those can't be trusted 100% of the time as a lot of people will get together and review bomb (look at Modern Warfare 2 on the PC for a good example, review bombed with 0s and 1s on a few sites due to its lack of PC LAN server support).
That being said, I don't know how the folks from the quoted article missed myself and my friends. I believe all of us look at scores, especially on new, non-franchise titles and sometimes even those too.
But in the end, it's price that always ends up being my final deciding factor. $60 per game is a tough pill to swallow for a new title. Long live Game Stop and Walmart with their used sales!
And yet IE8 is beta, and that is what the original reply was in regards to.
The point is that this ``speed comparison'' is complete bunk designed to pump FUD and get the product out there.
This is basically Microsoft's version of timing a top fuel dragster on a 4.4 second run with an analog watch by counting every time the hand moves, and it's a brand new 8,500 HP machine in one lane and a 6,500 HP rig from a few years ago in the other.
The Sprint Simply Everything line of plans are absolutely fantastic and well priced. All Sprint has needed was a phone to match (ala a Instinct with a real web browser). Maybe this is it?
It was largely the porn industry that helped push the VHS format standard as the cameras cost less and that quickly led to lower media costs. Porn was all about large volumes with small margins, therefore they went to what cost less.
If anything, porn will again decide. They all hold our futures in their hands and I'd be surprised if the format makers aren't courting them rather strongly at this point.
It has worked well for Sony Online Entertainment's EverQuest and EverQuest II franchies, so why not? Who wants to visit a brick and mortar store in today's age of high speed internet, anyway?
I say bring it on. Let's just hope they can price it right.
Domain registration companies will never blacklist spammers -- that's how they make their money. Everyone knows selling domains leads to a big fat wallet at the end of the day, why would they want to reduce their profit forecast for some lowsy spam?..and to those that see signatures: Go disable them. There's never anything useful anyway.
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Actually, I watch the content in a timely manner to experience it without having it spoiled by everyone else that watched it over the course of the prior year.
And yes, that happens quite often in my life, unfortunately. Sad part is that it's usually not the same people who do it, which makes it difficult to avoid.
Remember the twist in The Sixth Sense that you didn't see coming? I don't. Someone saw me with the disc in hand and spoiled it before I even put it in my DVD player.
Spoilers aren't bad if you're at the front of the release curve.
Now if only Netflix had content that was less than a year old, it'd be great.
Online streams? They often suffer from the same REALLY FREAKIN LOUD COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTIONS. cbs.com, I'm talking to you.
Fortunately, we now have precedent. In 40 years, they will be no louder than the content itself. Excellent!
Bingo. 1-5, that's all we need. Bad, poor, average, good, great. Let the number be the guide, let the text make the decision.
They must have fixed whatever was wrong with NWN2, then. It ran like a champ on my single core laptop with integrated graphics when I gave it a whirl.
Good thing Yahoo results come from Bing. The man is watching you, c64!
Just give us a web browser on our 360s, MS. I'll shag clicker.com something fierce and you'll make your money off the hardware and Live subscription fee. Could it be any easer?
Nah, it'll be confirmation that Keanu Reeves is going to destroy the word at the end of 2012. So, let's get off this rock. Now does anyone remember where we parked the spaceship?
No doubt. I don't want want to live forever, just long enough to piss my great great grandchildren off when they have to change the age field in their databases from a tinyint() or byte to something more worthy.
Write your own game. Since you're bored with the current crop, you are less likely to reproduce them and might just come up with the next Angry Birds or Meat Boy concept.
I felt the same way you did not that long ago and now I've got a functioning prototype using the Unreal Development Kit. If you can image it, you can do it. Git 'r' dun!
A few minutes worth of these videos and I'm sleeping like a champ. This is way better than counting sheep.
So if the $60 I spent for the 360 version lets me use and transfer the license for the content that's provided by the game developer and the distributor (i.e., I can sell the CD on the used market), shouldn't the DLC license also be transferable as I already posses the physical media with said content?
Honestly, I don't mind paying for the DLCs. I just wish they had been up front about how they were being distributed -- they've lost some of my trust simply because they didn't disclose the method they were planning to use.
Some people are already using Theora and Vorbis inside MKVs. That just might be the hot ticket in the future.
The other great thing is that you make a disk image of your VPS and store it remotely as a backup. Then if you decide to move, you just find another company running the same VM software and restore the entire image. BAM! It doesn't get any easier.
I've been doing this for years and it works great. Plus you can always start up the VM software at home (since most places use free software anyway) and do remote development with your *compete* live environment. It's great.
Almost 60 VPSes currently running under my name and wouldn't recommend anything less to anyone as tech savvy as the Slashdot crowd!
I should have clarified. My sites are all now built for HTML5 and every attempt is made to stay standards-compliant.
While users with older browsers are redirected, the entire site (short of the few pages with directions) use those standards and are still visible selects the ``I know my browser was made in the 1800s but I still want to see your site'' link.
It's code and pages that I wrote one and just copy into new sites. *That's* what I wish more people would do. We could all gently urge those who either don't know or don't care and perhaps make the web a better place, one user at a time.
All of my sites now use browser detection for Firefox 2.* and IE versions prior to 8 and sends the user to a page giving them download options. It'd be nice if more people did the same.
Not everyone. Tons of sites list both critic and player reviews and there's often a fairly large difference between both which tells a rather fascinating story. At the same time, those can't be trusted 100% of the time as a lot of people will get together and review bomb (look at Modern Warfare 2 on the PC for a good example, review bombed with 0s and 1s on a few sites due to its lack of PC LAN server support).
That being said, I don't know how the folks from the quoted article missed myself and my friends. I believe all of us look at scores, especially on new, non-franchise titles and sometimes even those too.
But in the end, it's price that always ends up being my final deciding factor. $60 per game is a tough pill to swallow for a new title. Long live Game Stop and Walmart with their used sales!
And yet IE8 is beta, and that is what the original reply was in regards to.
The point is that this ``speed comparison'' is complete bunk designed to pump FUD and get the product out there.
This is basically Microsoft's version of timing a top fuel dragster on a 4.4 second run with an analog watch by counting every time the hand moves, and it's a brand new 8,500 HP machine in one lane and a 6,500 HP rig from a few years ago in the other.
The Sprint Simply Everything line of plans are absolutely fantastic and well priced. All Sprint has needed was a phone to match (ala a Instinct with a real web browser). Maybe this is it?
s/beat/beta/;
I wanted to play but the beat turned me off. Anyone remember opening doors?
It was largely the porn industry that helped push the VHS format standard as the cameras cost less and that quickly led to lower media costs. Porn was all about large volumes with small margins, therefore they went to what cost less.
If anything, porn will again decide. They all hold our futures in their hands and I'd be surprised if the format makers aren't courting them rather strongly at this point.
When did Slashdot put ads on the front page? Long live Firefox and Adblock.
It has worked well for Sony Online Entertainment's EverQuest and EverQuest II franchies, so why not? Who wants to visit a brick and mortar store in today's age of high speed internet, anyway?
I say bring it on. Let's just hope they can price it right.
Domain registration companies will never blacklist spammers -- that's how they make their money. Everyone knows selling domains leads to a big fat wallet at the end of the day, why would they want to reduce their profit forecast for some lowsy spam? ..and to those that see signatures: Go disable them. There's never anything useful anyway.
Sounds like you need to get a better ISP if you have to keep any of their numbers on speed dial. 8P